Upgrading Emachine T2542

[Darius_Nightsha]

yea i'm a gamer and i want to run World of warcraft better on my Emachine
at certain places ingame it gets slowed to standing speed

and i want to run it the game better what can i do besides get another computer?

 

[jivetrky]

to the forums!


Welp, I guess there's a couple of things you could do to help. The biggest thing you can do is buy a video card. The T2542 comes standard with onboard video. You could get a PCI video card (NOT PCIe!) like a Geforce 5700 or 5900. (check ebay)

That would be the first and most major thing you could do to make WoW more playable. More RAM would also help a little too, but the video card would need to come first.


But if possible, save up your money and just build a machine that's a little more up-to-date

 

[freakdiablo]

Ya, you dont need a x1950 for world of warcraft. play it fine on a radeon 7500.

 

[Darius_Nightsha]

my friend looked at my computer and said that the slot for the vid card wasnt there and i looked online and emachines at times have trouble with vid cards

 

[jivetrky]

It doesn't have an AGP port. But it does have PCI slots (unless they are all filled with things like modems and etc)

If you have a free one, then you could use a PCI video card. Which is why I recommended a Geforce 5700 or 5900 (Or ATI equivalent would be fine too)

...You could get a PCI video card (NOT PCIe!) like a Geforce 5700 or 5900. (check ebay)...

 

[Darius_Nightsha]

ok so a Geforce 5700 pci vidcard
and how much extra ram?

 

[freakdiablo]

a gig total should be fine.

 

[White_Pawn]

if you can't find the 5700, the 5600 will do fine too.

I agree with the one gig of ram.

You could also switch out the cpu.

 

[Douken]

At last someone that has my PC !! Hi man, I was at first mad that my PC didn't had any AGP or PCI-e slots so I had to buy a PCI graphics card, I went out there to the stores and could only find the Radeon 9250 256MB version wich I bought for $140 kinda 2 and a half years ago. This card has helped a lot but quite doesn't make it anymore. Since u are buying a PCI card now I would recomend u buying this card that will last u a while and it has DX9 and all the things u need to play very good.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814129063

so with the RAM 1GB will always do fine. As a current T2542 user those are my words.

U can see the things I have in my sig below in the section "Main Rig"

*Note: After this upgrade change the whole system (when the new games doesn't play as good as you would like)

 

[Darius_Nightsha]

well they didnt have the Gig so i got 512mb and as for the Videocard i got this
VisionTek® Xtasy Radeon™ 1300 PCI Video Card (X1300256PCI)

VST X1300256PCI
• 256MB of DDR-2 RAM
• 90 nanometer GPU
• Crossfire-ready

• Avivo technology
• Shader Model 3.0
• For Windows